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Couldn’t Qanon Themselves Out of It
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this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2026
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Convicted felons make up almost 8% of the voting age population. That is not a "minuscule" percent. It's enough to have changed 2/3 of all presidential elections.
It is certainly actively being used to suppress Democrat power in general, and Black voting power specifically.
You are wildly wrong.
1.1% of the population cannot vote due to felony conviction.
And those people are distributed across the political spectrum just like any other demographic.
If you're going to quote bullshit stats, at least post a link to some fringe blog to back it up sort of
You are too ignorant to be that smug.
Or is it just racism? Who doesn't know that Black people are wildly overrepresented in the prison population? Or that Black people overwhelmingly vote Democrat? Those are really basic facts.
The 1.1% you quote, specifically only refers to the non Black population. It's 5%-10% of the Black population. Which ends up being 2% of the total population of the country. Though it varies wildly from state to state. In some states it is as high as 6% of the total population.
That is by no means insignificant.
https://www.sentencingproject.org/reports/locked-out-2024-four-million-denied-voting-rights-due-to-a-felony-conviction//
I got my numbers from the exact same source. Your own link contradicts you. 4 million is not 2% of the US pop. 4 million is 1.1% of the population.
I never said they were split 50/50. I said they were distributed.
Meaning it's not "four million votes for Democrats"
And fuck you for assuming my ethics. I think the fact that felons can't vote is absolutely immoral. Nobody should be deprived of their vote.
But I don't lie about statistics.
I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure it's 2026 now and our population is growing, not shrinking
And that 4m number is down from their 2022 report (4.4m), so you can't tell me the felon population has grown with the US population
So you just made up a number that felt good to you, but demanded hard sources from me? I think you have done a fine job of expressing the validity of yourself as a source. Thank you.
Bruh 1.1% is a lot closer to 1.7% than the literally 5% value originally commented above. Sue me for taking the latest available felon numbers and dividing by current US population
You are having a reading comprehension and retention issue, and you have a lack of understanding for how statistics work.
Funny, I was thinking the same thing about you
The really entertaining thing is that this is all over an aside in my OC because you didn't like the word I chose to comparatively represent the size of the felony population in a post about how awful it is to take people's right to vote away.
Talk about picking the wrong target. Fuckin yikes.
I made a cordial correction to your statement, overall agreeing with your sentiment, and you got aggravated.
You even admitted that you personally made up the statistic you used. Mine have all been directly taken from trusted sources.
You are projecting.
You quoted 5-10%, which is wildly inaccurate. It's not even close. Then proceeded to call me racist when I did some simple math using the latest numbers available to me.
If you quote me directly, you'll see where you are wrong. I used accurate statistics taken directly from the linked website.
You read both my comment and the website, and yet you still don't see it, but if you're genuinely interested in seeing the several places where you misunderstood, I'll stay here with you putting in work to help you.
Quote what I said and I'm happy to quote you the corresponding part from the linked website.
No thanks. This is all a massive waste of time and energy when we both agree that denying people their right to vote is fucked.
So instead of bickering over numbers, let's just end with "fuck anyone who wants to deny people their right to vote, felon or otherwise" mmmkay?